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Hi my neighbor is eight years old and he has corn snakes that he would like to breed. I would like to help him but i don't know much about corn.

he wants to know how big the corns snakes have to be before they can breed. He knows that there should be a cooling off period in the winter. But he doesn't know how big they have to be.

Currently his female corn is 7 ozs and approximately 32 inches long.

Do you think it is ready for the cool down this fall and winter?
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Longtang. I like snakes and rats.

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0.0.1 pacific gopher snake ; Mich
0.0.1 albino corn snake ; Shmee
0.0.1 motley corn snake ; Sodapop

It is pretty old.

I just asked the child. It is at least eight months old.

The child is wondering if it is okay to start the cool down this winter. Or should he keep the temp summer like so that it would continue to feed over the winter time and grow.

The goal is to breed it.

Thx for any help. I am a ball python guy and I don't know anything about corns. He also has a book "Cornsnakes" from corn utopia. I told him to read it. it is by bill and cathy lvoe.

Is the info in there?
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Longtang. I like snakes and rats.

Usually the 2nd or 3rd spring the females are large enough. About 36" and 300g is around the 'standard' breeding size. 7oz is about 200g. Also, brumation isn't necessary to breed them.

Also the book by Bill and Kathy Love (actually called the Corn Snake Manual) is probably the best book out there on corns right now, and has plenty of information devoted to breeding.
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-audri
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seriously...

I'm 23 and breeding just one pair required responsibility, work and understanding that these are animals that need humain treatment. I know some 8yr olds can be mature but there's a lot more to "breeding" than the fun of the copulation, eggs and babies. There's keeping them properly fed, good health, safely caged, requiring time, money (allowance is that good these days?) and most importantly someone or a group of people ready and willing to buy the babies off of him.

Things to consider, I would suggest to him to just buy more (i.e. distractor [hey young one's get distracted by other ideas easily eh?]) of the same sex and simply enjoy owning these wonderful creatures.

My 2c, good luck with whatever decision you make

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SpardaWolf
Corn Snake Addict
"Always Learning"

>>seriously...
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>>I'm 23 and breeding just one pair required responsibility, work and understanding that these are animals that need humain treatment. I know some 8yr olds can be mature but there's a lot more to "breeding" than the fun of the copulation, eggs and babies. There's keeping them properly fed, good health, safely caged, requiring time, money (allowance is that good these days?) and most importantly someone or a group of people ready and willing to buy the babies off of him.
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>>Things to consider, I would suggest to him to just buy more (i.e. distractor [hey young one's get distracted by other ideas easily eh?]) of the same sex and simply enjoy owning these wonderful creatures.
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>>My 2c, good luck with whatever decision you make

Thank you for the constructive questioning. I appreciate your point of view. It does take responsibility and understanding to take care of live creatures. I will try to do what I can. He is not my child and so I can only try to give him the rational arguments and he and his parents would have to decide if it is the right thing to do.

The art of parenting is the balance between allowing a child the freedom to make choices for themselves, while making sure that those choice do not end up hurting people or, in this case, other living creatures.

There in lies the art of parenting. You have to give them enough room so taht they can learn from their mistakes and learn to trust their own choices. Teach them empathy. The bases of morality is empathy. If you can teach them to put themselves in the position of the baby snakes and imagine what the baby snakes and the corn snakes feels, then the child is more likely to make the right and compassionate choices.

Sorry for the babbling. I am a parent in training. no kids yet, but in fiscal year 2005, my wife and i plan to have a child. So, I think about parenting all the time and I read.

Here is a pic of my wife and I. We plan to have a child in fiscal year 2005. Hopefully we will be ready by then.

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Longtang. I like snakes and rats.